Career

Experience & Timeline

My professional journey so far.

Solutions Lead

Current

Chimera Technologies Pvt. LtdBangalore

Feb 2024 — Present
Official role:Senior Software Engineer· Feb 2024 — Jul 2024Solutions Engineer· Jul 2024 — May 2025Solutions Lead· May 2025 — Present

Service-based technology consultancy delivering enterprise software, platform, and AI engineering to global clients. Official role: Solutions Engineer, promoted to Solutions Lead (May 2025) — first official promotion at Chimera. As a consultancy resource, simultaneously carried significantly expanded technical roles on client engagements spanning healthcare and pharmaceutical verticals.

  • Promoted to Solutions Lead (31 May 2025) — first official promotion at Chimera, recognising cross-functional technical leadership and consistent high-impact delivery
  • Built OptiBoot — internal platform framework for bootstrapping production-ready microservices with standardised CI/CD, Kubernetes manifests, and observability out of the box
  • Led presales solutioning: discovery sessions, architecture planning, WBS, POC ownership, and client onboarding
  • Recognised internally for stepping into multiple roles beyond the job title — mentoring junior architects, supporting business analysis, participating in backlog grooming, and bridging communication across delivery, AI, QA, and architecture teams
Node.js
TypeScript
React
Kubernetes
AWS EKS
Helm
LangGraph
LangChain
Gemini
RAG
MCP
GitHub Actions
Prometheus
Grafana
MongoDB
Kafka
Client Engagements
Global Pharmaceutical Enterprise PlatformActive
Pharmaceutical
Apr 2026 — Present
Roles:Technical Architect· Apr 2026 — May 2026Lead Architect· May 2026 — Present
  • Led Application Engineering (Lead AE + Senior AE + Junior AE), AI Engineering (Lead AIE + Senior AIE + Junior AIE), and QA (2 engineers) as the apex technical authority
  • DDD-based solution architecture augmented with Gen AI: RAG pipelines, MCP tool integrations, Vector DB design, and LLM auditability & governance frameworks
  • Live voice AI engineering using real-time multimodal models for agentic, conversational interactions
  • Cross-discipline mentorship spanning MERN developers, AI engineers, QA professionals, business analysts, and fellow architects
  • Progressed from short-term Technical Architect billing to long-term Lead Architect engagement
  • Personally owned DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes platform operations alongside architectural responsibilities
LangGraph
LangChain
Gemini
RAG
MCP
Vector DB
DDD
Node.js
TypeScript
React
Kubernetes
AWS EKS
Helm
GitHub Actions
Prometheus
Grafana
MongoDB
Global Healthcare Data & Analytics Platform
Healthcare
Feb 2024 — Feb 2025
Roles:Senior Software Engineer· Feb 2024 — Jul 2024Platform & Observability Engineer· Jul 2024 — Feb 2025
  • Full-stack MERN engineering on a large-scale healthcare data platform
  • Built end-to-end observability: Prometheus + Grafana, Loki + Promtail log aggregation (later migrated to Alloy)
  • Deployed and managed Kafka via Strimzi Operator, MongoDB via Community Operator, Elasticsearch + Kibana via ECK Operator
  • Maintained kube-prometheus-stack for cluster-wide metrics and alerting on AWS EKS
  • Performed major Kubernetes platform upgrades and ongoing maintenance
  • Authored and maintained Helm charts for environment-specific, repeatable deployments
Node.js
TypeScript
React
MongoDB
Kubernetes
AWS EKS
Helm
Kafka
Strimzi
Elasticsearch
Kibana
Prometheus
Grafana
Loki
Alloy
GitHub Actions
Docker
Global Vision Care eCommerce Platform
Healthcare & Medical Devices
Feb 2024 — Jul 2024
Role:API Gateway Engineer
  • Configured and maintained Apigee API Gateway for a global vision care eCommerce platform
  • Implemented API proxy policies, security controls, quota management, and traffic routing on Apigee
  • Collaborated with enterprise delivery and integration architecture teams
Apigee
REST APIs
API Gateway
Node.js
TypeScript

Tech Lead

Promoted

Computer Valley IT SolutionsBangalore

Nov 2022 — Feb 2024

Livonia Tech was acquired by and merged into Computer Valley IT Solutions, where I was promoted to Tech Lead. Wore many hats concurrently — DevOps, automation testing, full-stack application engineering, mobile & desktop development, UI/UX design, and platform engineering — leading delivery across multiple simultaneous products.

  • Promoted to Tech Lead following the Livonia Tech → Computer Valley merger
  • DevOps: designed and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines; later migrated to GitHub Actions
  • Automation Testing: built Cypress E2E test suites for continuous quality assurance
  • Application Engineering: full-stack MERN (React, Node.js, MongoDB) and PHP + MySQL development
  • Mobile Development: cross-platform apps with Flutter (Android / iOS) and React + Ionic (hybrid)
  • Desktop Development: production desktop applications using Electron.js
  • UI/UX: interface design and interactive prototyping in Adobe XD
  • Platform Engineering: AWS EC2 deployments, NGINX reverse proxy, MongoDB replica set configuration
  • Real-time systems: low-latency cardamom auction platform using Socket.io and WebSockets
  • REST API and WebSocket API design & implementation across multiple products
  • Introduced pnpm workspaces, Cypress testing standards, and modular architecture conventions
  • Conducted internal MERN Stack training programs (2023)
React
Node.js
TypeScript
MongoDB
PHP
MySQL
Flutter
Ionic
Electron.js
Socket.io
WebSockets
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
Cypress
Adobe XD
AWS EC2
Firebase
NGINX
pnpm

Junior Software Engineer

Livonia TechBangalore

Mar 2020 — Nov 2022

Started career as a Junior Software Engineer, developing modules for enterprise ERP software, building desktop applications, and contributing to full ERP rewrites. Livonia Tech was subsequently acquired by Computer Valley IT Solutions.

  • Built a financial transactions consolidation desktop app using Electron.js, React, and SQLite
  • Developed full ERP software with Razorpay & Graphy webhooks integration
  • Added drag-and-drop task assignment UI using Vue.js
  • Contributed to PHP + MySQL ERP modules across multiple enterprise client products
PHP
MySQL
Vue.js
React
Node.js
Electron.js
SQLite
Bootstrap

Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)

Koshys Institute of Management StudiesBangalore North University

2019 — 2022

Focused on software engineering, databases, and application development.

Data Structures
DBMS
OOP
Web Development